Lexie collects pennies

A couple of months ago Curt scared the begeebies out of our older kids when he saw and then shared this movie clip that portrayed the toothfairy as a giant hairy evil tooth-eating spider.  You leave your teeth...it finds them and eats them up.  Way to go--freak the kids out and make think that if they lose a tooth, leave it under your pillow and then this toothfairy spider creeps into their rooms and eats them up--it's how the spider toothfairy stays alive...feeding on teeth of unsuspecting little kids.  Why don't we just tell them that Santa Claus is really from Whoville and has a dog named Max. 

{Maybe it's just about as bad as me telling the boys that if they go to bed with piles and messes in their rooms, then as they snore and sleep with their mouths open the spiders that live in their room and have created their comfy little webs around their messes and piles will crawl into their mouths and they'll swallow them if they're not careful.}  I'm thinking maybe we're just not nice parents sometimes--resorting to scare tactics?  

UPDATE: Okay, Curt's reading this for the first time and claims he didn't actually **show** the older kids this scary clip so he's not as BUSTED as I portrayed, but he did tell them about it so that's almost just as noddy. Noddy Curt!

Lexie is now in business.  Of collecting pennies, that is.  She's four.  And she lost her very first tooth the other day.  I'm telling you, the girl is beyond her years.  But she's also as innocent as they come, and at four.... she has had pimples & sweats and therefore smells like a 12 year old boy (not kidding--she wears deodorant out of complete NEED).  I say this because now she's losing her last signs of 'baby.'  Baby teeth, sweet smell, and everything in betweeen- Not fair!  But she will never lose her sweetness and tender loving ways...I hope.  She wants so badly to grow up like her big sis, Kenz.  I'm constantly pleading with her to stay little and reminding her that she'll always be MY baby.  She'll just give me a squeeze and then another and another and say, "I love you so much, I just can't stop hugging you."  Betcha y'all wish you had a Lexie too.

I do love that she was so thrilled about her loss and next step into kid-hood.  She exclaimed, "And now the toothfairy is gonna come get it and I get a penny!"  The toothfairy was nice and left a handful of pennies instead.  (Losing teeth at 4 before the concept of money isn't so bad for the toothfairy)!  At least Lexie's toothfairy is still a sweet, gentle fairy that doesn't resemble that creepy one.  Come to think of it, none of the bigger kids have left their teeth out for the toothfairy since Curt introduced scary toothfairy.   

Hooray for you, Lexie, on your 'first.'  Love you to pieces.